Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 733 476 725
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 11.20% 13.84% 11.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 50.14% 52.25% 42.82%
Number of salaries quoted 395 359 635
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £27,800
25th Percentile £34,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% +1.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £90,375 £71,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -6.45%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,462 911 1,693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 22.33% 26.48% 26.01%
Number of salaries quoted 887 662 1,408
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £91,750 £78,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 9 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -2 179 £60,000 +9.09% 57
Essex +1 177 £40,000 -11.11% 28
Cambridgeshire -2 156 £54,000 +13.68% 32
Suffolk +34 102 £46,370 -7.26% 9
Norfolk +2 90 £55,000 +58.20% 18
Bedfordshire -5 27 £37,500 -29.25% 23
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 90 (12.28%) SharePoint
2 41 (5.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.77%) WordPress
4 8 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.82%) CMS
6 3 (0.41%) SAS
7 2 (0.27%) Confluence
7 2 (0.27%) Luigi
8 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 73 (9.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.82%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.23%) Dynamics AX
1 9 (1.23%) Dynamics GP
2 7 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.68%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.27%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.27%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 173 (23.60%) Microsoft 365
2 131 (17.87%) Power Platform
3 122 (16.64%) Azure AI
4 105 (14.32%) Entra ID
5 91 (12.41%) AWS
6 76 (10.37%) Azure DevOps
7 45 (6.14%) OneDrive
8 39 (5.32%) PowerApps
9 35 (4.77%) Power Automate
10 34 (4.64%) Azure Logic Apps
11 33 (4.50%) Azure Data Factory
12 27 (3.68%) GitHub
13 22 (3.00%) GCP
14 20 (2.73%) SaaS
15 19 (2.59%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 17 (2.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 16 (2.18%) GitHub Copilot
18 15 (2.05%) IaaS
19 14 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
20 13 (1.77%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 69 (9.41%) Firewall
2 42 (5.73%) DNS
3 40 (5.46%) VPN
4 28 (3.82%) DHCP
5 22 (3.00%) TCP/IP
6 16 (2.18%) WAN
7 14 (1.91%) Internet
8 13 (1.77%) LAN
9 12 (1.64%) VoIP
10 11 (1.50%) VLAN
10 11 (1.50%) Wireless
11 8 (1.09%) Network Security
12 7 (0.95%) Broadband
13 5 (0.68%) DMZ
13 5 (0.68%) MQTT
13 5 (0.68%) WLAN
14 4 (0.55%) Structured Cabling
15 3 (0.41%) SSL
16 2 (0.27%) L2TP
16 2 (0.27%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (15.83%) Power BI
2 109 (14.87%) Azure SQL Database
3 71 (9.69%) Tableau
4 60 (8.19%) MongoDB
5 31 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
6 30 (4.09%) SQL Server
7 13 (1.77%) Data Lake
8 11 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (0.95%) MySQL
10 6 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.82%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.82%) Looker
10 6 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (0.55%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.41%) Metadata
12 3 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (2.05%) Git
2 13 (1.77%) JIRA
3 6 (0.82%) MLflow
4 5 (0.68%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.55%) Selenium
6 3 (0.41%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.27%) git-flow
7 2 (0.27%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.27%) Yeoman
8 1 (0.14%) ERwin
8 1 (0.14%) JMeter
8 1 (0.14%) Postman
8 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.14%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 376 (51.30%) Social Skills
2 86 (11.73%) Finance
3 32 (4.37%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (3.00%) Law
5 20 (2.73%) Marketing
6 15 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (2.05%) Public Sector
7 13 (1.77%) Legal
7 13 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.36%) Retail
9 8 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (0.95%) Banking
11 6 (0.82%) Advertising
11 6 (0.82%) Multimedia
12 4 (0.55%) Games
12 4 (0.55%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.55%) Music Industry
12 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.41%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 172 (23.47%) Analyst
2 145 (19.78%) Developer
3 135 (18.42%) Junior
4 133 (18.14%) Junior Analyst
5 83 (11.32%) IT Support
6 81 (11.05%) .NET Developer
7 70 (9.55%) Security Analyst
8 68 (9.28%) Senior
9 66 (9.00%) Data Analyst
10 64 (8.73%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 64 (8.73%) Junior Data Analyst
10 64 (8.73%) Junior Security Analyst
11 60 (8.19%) Ethical Hacker
12 47 (6.41%) IT Engineer
13 43 (5.87%) Support Engineer
14 37 (5.05%) Azure Engineer
15 34 (4.64%) Lead
15 34 (4.64%) Network Engineer
16 33 (4.50%) Cloud Engineer
17 32 (4.37%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (15.14%) .NET
2 99 (13.51%) .NET Core
3 79 (10.78%) ASP.NET
4 78 (10.64%) ASP.NET Core
5 75 (10.23%) CSS
6 66 (9.00%) HTML
7 43 (5.87%) RESTful
8 39 (5.32%) React
9 33 (4.50%) Entity Framework
10 32 (4.37%) ML.NET
10 32 (4.37%) Node.js
11 29 (3.96%) Blazor
12 23 (3.14%) AngularJS
13 22 (3.00%) HTML5 Canvas
13 22 (3.00%) JSON
14 21 (2.86%) ASP.NET Web API
14 21 (2.86%) Vue
15 19 (2.59%) Microsoft Graph
15 19 (2.59%) SPFx
16 15 (2.05%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.19%) Cyberattack
2 31 (4.23%) Cloud Native
3 29 (3.96%) Driving Licence
4 19 (2.59%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.32%) Management Information System
6 16 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (1.77%) Security Posture
8 12 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.23%) Product Ownership
11 7 (0.95%) Clustering
11 7 (0.95%) Digital TV
11 7 (0.95%) iPhone
11 7 (0.95%) Robotics
12 6 (0.82%) Cloud Security Posture
12 6 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
12 6 (0.82%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.82%) Low-Code
12 6 (0.82%) PKI
12 6 (0.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 128 (17.46%) Windows
2 81 (11.05%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.46%) Android
3 18 (2.46%) Windows Server 2019
4 17 (2.32%) Linux
5 12 (1.64%) Apple iOS
6 11 (1.50%) Mac OS
7 10 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.68%) VMS
9 4 (0.55%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (29.06%) Cybersecurity
2 185 (25.24%) AI
3 129 (17.60%) Agile
4 125 (17.05%) Mentoring
5 119 (16.23%) Business Intelligence
6 103 (14.05%) DevOps
7 83 (11.32%) Full-Stack Development
8 80 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
9 77 (10.50%) CI/CD
10 71 (9.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 62 (8.46%) Machine Learning
12 60 (8.19%) Ethical Hacking
13 39 (5.32%) Computer Science
13 39 (5.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 36 (4.91%) Multithreading
14 36 (4.91%) Roadmaps
15 35 (4.77%) ITIL
15 35 (4.77%) Project Management
15 35 (4.77%) User Experience
16 33 (4.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 239 (32.61%) SQL
2 145 (19.78%) C#
3 136 (18.55%) Python
4 69 (9.41%) JavaScript
5 57 (7.78%) PowerShell
6 43 (5.87%) TypeScript
7 25 (3.41%) PHP
8 15 (2.05%) Java
9 11 (1.50%) C++
10 8 (1.09%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.68%) R
12 4 (0.55%) Bash
12 4 (0.55%) Bicep
13 3 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.41%) Ruby
14 2 (0.27%) Scala
15 1 (0.14%) Go
15 1 (0.14%) Rust
15 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 262 (35.74%) Azure Certification
2 71 (9.69%) CompTIA Security+
2 71 (9.69%) Degree
3 65 (8.87%) CompTIA CySA+
4 60 (8.19%) CEH
5 43 (5.87%) Cisco Certification
6 40 (5.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 37 (5.05%) CCNA
8 35 (4.77%) Security Cleared
9 29 (3.96%) Network+ Certification
10 27 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
11 21 (2.86%) SC Cleared
12 9 (1.23%) CCNP
12 9 (1.23%) DV Cleared
13 8 (1.09%) AWS Certification
14 7 (0.95%) CISSP
15 6 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 6 (0.82%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.41%) QA
2 21 (2.86%) SLA
3 20 (2.73%) GDPR
4 16 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.05%) NIST
6 12 (1.64%) Data Quality
7 11 (1.50%) GRC
8 8 (1.09%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.09%) NCSC
9 7 (0.95%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.82%) JSP 440
11 5 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 4 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.55%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.55%) PMO
13 2 (0.27%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.14%) IFRS
14 1 (0.14%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 125 (17.05%) Active Directory
2 34 (4.64%) Hyper-V
3 29 (3.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (3.00%) Docker
5 15 (2.05%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.82%) vSphere
8 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.14%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 51 (6.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 32 (4.37%) Kubernetes
3 22 (3.00%) Terraform
4 9 (1.23%) Ansible
5 4 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (0.55%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (0.55%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.41%) Proxmox
6 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.14%) Nessus
7 1 (0.14%) SCCM
7 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 531 (72.44%) Microsoft
2 148 (20.19%) ForeScout
3 50 (6.82%) Cisco
4 34 (4.64%) VMware
5 27 (3.68%) Apple
6 19 (2.59%) Adobe
7 18 (2.46%) Google
8 17 (2.32%) Databricks
9 14 (1.91%) Meraki
10 13 (1.77%) ServiceNow
11 12 (1.64%) SolarWinds
12 10 (1.36%) Fortinet
12 10 (1.36%) Veeam
13 9 (1.23%) Epicor
13 9 (1.23%) Facebook
14 8 (1.09%) SAP
15 6 (0.82%) Aruba
15 6 (0.82%) Cloudera
15 6 (0.82%) Dell
15 6 (0.82%) Sophos